Uncle Ben Eller’s 5 Favorite Exercises for Maximum Picking Speed Gains!

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Hey guys! Its your good buddy Uncle Ben! You wanna make shred GAINS? You want to get your hand fingers working more better, more faster, and more stronger? You got the NEED to gain picking SPEED?!?!?! If so, chromatic exercises are the KEY!!! As long as you practice them the right way, that is.... and its with that in mind that on this episode, i'm going to show you all my 5 FAVORITE exercises that you should be practicing every day! Theres stuff in here for string skipping, inside and outside picking, a little bit of everything! A couple are ones i made up, and there's even one in here that i stole from @TomoFujitaMusic that i'm HOOKED on. Spend about 5 minutes a day on each of these and you'll be shredding FAST! You're also gonna get some metronome practice tips and valuable info about how to harness the power of CHUNKING! Get some!!!
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Thanks a lot for watching! Is there another technique you'd like to learn some exercises for? Let me know in the comments!!!

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@Slaughter327 3 года назад

1: The Classic 3:00 2: Triplet Surprise 7:22 3: The Flipper 11:15 4: The Tomo 15:50 5: The Punisher 21:26

@reza_qn 3 года назад

Thanks mate

@MrMetalhorse 3 года назад

I don't know Uncle Ben... This sounds like practice.... We don't do that here. Lol

@Reeldrivenoutdoors 3 года назад

When uncle Ben started playing the tomo It immediately hit me...that is the riff from lamb of gods “now youve got something to die for”

@jasonstallworth 3 года назад

Dude, I actually find it's easier to use those first 3 notes within the scale to kick off shred patterns. And a little tip is to play each 3-note pattern twice!

@donald-parker 3 года назад

Good ideas. Its kind of funny that I was writing this comment while listening to your video, suggesting you should limit this stuff to time budget and make sure your practice time includes playing real music too. Different brain muscles are engaged. I find I can pretty quickly be on autopilot playing these chromatic ideas. But then you ended the video saying exactly that. I need to learn to hold off comments until watching the whole video. At least with your videos anyway. Goodness from beginning to end!

@golgothaassassin5035 3 года назад

True pain =The Punisher on an acoustic making every note clear.

@ukcats82 3 года назад

I love the Punisher, that's my first warm up exercise. I even throw a hybrid pick in there on those first notes

@nethbt 3 года назад

Marty Friedman IMO is the the king of chromatic soloing coz he doesn't overuse it and he does it tastefully

@yessir6427 3 года назад

he is the king overall

@rafacas 3 года назад

i've been practicing the punisher for a couple of months now, it's a great exercise, and it has made easier to play mr. scary, just like you said it would. thanks!

@peterdieduardo6792 3 года назад

Your picking exercises have made massive improvements in my picking speed and dexterity. True story.

@dylandemars7034 3 года назад

I use these exercises all the time. This is one of the most useful videos ive seen.

@drsmith4582 3 года назад

Very useful lesson. It’s cool that you mentioned Tomo. He is awesome!

@kirkwilson6229 3 года назад

Good lookin' on the patterns for the chromatics. They will actually be really useful when I'm playing over harmonic minor. I've been trying to get some more color notes to go with the major 7th in there. Chromatics give phrasing a nice nuanced feeling, and if done right really sound deliberate. It keeps the ear's attention. Great lesson.

@CrisKRA 3 года назад

The real ones are those who practised the Punisher years ago, PS: When you said vier in German, the V is pronounced as an F, great video!

@Burl_Hurlbutt 3 года назад

Daily routine... practice... So about that...

@HHIDave 3 года назад

My hand fingers are definitely gonna shred more betterly now thanks to these showers of gold...en guitar wisdom nuggets from Uncle Ben. Thanks! 🤘🎸

@danieljamesoconnor6800 3 года назад

Thanx Uncle Ben, dies ist eine tolle Übung! One day I‘ll gonna be as confident as you are playin‘ the guitar. Yeah! 🍻

@masterman6537 3 года назад

Great stuff as always. Thanks Uncle Ben 🤘🏻🤘🏻

@priteshugrankar6815 3 года назад

This is pure gold. Subbed.

@chrisdeleo800 3 года назад

I still use that Monster chromatic exercise you posted months ago. It’s great!

@Alfamaxis 3 года назад

Thanks uncle Ben, I like how after your lessons my backside doesn't hurt

@stringbender11672 3 года назад

Oh wow nice G&L guitar!!! Did not know you had one of those😎👍

@matthewmuller5794 3 года назад

Great advice to start with an upstroke! Anything that changes the normal way of playing will improve the technique.

@Erocapi 3 года назад

Thanks for the great advices 🙏✨

@rickybobby5907 3 года назад

Super cool. I always do the punisher when i pick my guitar up for the day. It has helped me a lot and for that i thank you Uncle Ben. Next i just have to work on my booger finger picking technique

@ila2500 3 года назад

Uncle Ben you thank you for this one..🎄🙏🏻

@truthseeker630 3 года назад

Most awesome Uncle!. Love the tutorials!

@AnonyMous-rr1rv 3 года назад

Great lesson and really toasty humor. Love ya uncle Ben.

@matrixstar2767 Год назад

Great lesson for my level, I'm already feeling a big XP boost. I'm playing the diatonic scale with my eyes closed, but these simple exercises are so important to get your fingers flying. Yee haw uncle Ben! That's going to unlock to some sweetest wholesome pie like they used to make back when I was just a critter.

@acevedohiram 3 года назад

Thanks Uncle Ben!

@Cymbaline713 3 года назад

Here's an extremely evil punishing variation on the Tomo exercise: Do it all legato style using all hammer ons and pull offs with the left hand only, and make all the notes sound at the same volume, even the higher strings.

@dashking5059 3 года назад

I should try this because my legato sucks especially the third and fourth finger

@davidhillewig 3 года назад

Hi Uncle Ben! New subscriber from Belgium here :) The 'concept Benjamin Franklin' video blew my mind. Thanks!

@QuistJam 3 года назад

AWESOME

@johnfestich5008 3 года назад

Great lesson Ben! And I love that g&l!

@stepitupandgo67 3 года назад

thx man...the punisher is lovely

@seraines 3 года назад

Diggin your channel, Ben! Great stuff! 🤘🏼

@fabienbourdier9847 3 года назад

Oh thanks so much dude ! i have always been doing the spider exercise, the first that you show, but always ascending, i've tried descending when going back up and even tho i struggle to do so in the beginning i feel my pinky and ring finger coming to life ! I will stick to this exercise for a but and come back later for the rest ! You rock ! thanks

@frankkoller2622 3 года назад

Thanks uncle Ben! Great exercises! 🎸👍

@roxanapopescu8908 3 года назад

This is really valuable! Thank you!

@leemcmann4467 2 года назад

Insane exercise, I love, hate it. Thanks uncle Ben!

@amarokker 2 года назад

I do the Tomo since three weeks on aingle strings up the neck, and it's awesome! I'll check out the others, too. Thanks!

@darkomtobia 3 года назад

This is well done. Thank you.

@GayanDanthanarayana 3 года назад

Good stuff Uncle Ben!

@mxmx6249 3 года назад

Thank you, uncle Ben. You're the best.

@lala-everyonescrazyaunt 3 года назад

Thanks, Ben. 👍✨

@halfdriven819 3 года назад

Thanks dude!

@ilyatiourine707 3 года назад

Thanks for good lessons, you do very good job explaining "obvious" to good guitarist thing to the beginners .

@craiglewis905 3 года назад

Nice vid great content. Thanks.

@liorauf 3 года назад

You are the BEST!!!

@kaoquinn 3 года назад

Hey Ben I'm in advance guitar player who was stuck in a rut.These exercises are great! I've been doing them over and over and over and they have unlocked something in my playing LOL, so I really appreciate you posting this. I follow you a lot and you are a very good teacher. One last question and I think is another problem I have, relaxing my hands, can you do a video on how to relax when you're playing? Many thanks!!!

@dickiefredericks 3 года назад

Ive been playing that Tomo exercise for forever haha. Excellent.

@unklstepbilly 3 года назад

You make alot of sense. I just need to apply it.

@dougarnold7955 3 года назад

Exercises! Awesome. 😁👍 9:30...yep. That's a good one. 14:06...yeah, I'm like that... 17:08...oh! I watched that vid the other day too. ...honest, I'm not making that up! Great stuff. I've been working chromatics on bass. I learned one from Rob Baker about two years ago that I really use a lot. I've been using the first one, the spider walk, but I keep the fingers grounded on the fret board on the string next, and only move each finger with each note... that's really good especially on the third finger which tends to be uncooperative. Thanks.

@paranormalrushhour 3 года назад

You know how I feel about The Punisher! Best damn exercise anyone can learn!

@OmnipotentO 3 года назад

I desperately need this lesson specifically

@meyou9655 3 года назад

Thank you for this. I used to do the first one all the time but I never really conciously focused on alternate picking. I wish I would have. Also good explanation of the metronome thingy... Or whatever it's called 😁. Cheers from Miramichi.

@tripkitchen2689 3 года назад

Quality content.

@ambageo 3 года назад

Uncle Ben, my masochist self would wholeheartedly like to thank you for the Punisher exercise; since I first saw it in another of your videos it has become my main warm up exercise. Now I will have to find some time to also add the Flipper ,which will be an additional mindf@ck exercise (but I can clearly see the value of it! I was wondering: Could you also come up with an exercise that would combine alternate and economy picking, like the one you already share in the Weekend Wankshop 242, but going down the strings and then up and with the exercise duration being longer? I have tried to come up with an exercise like that but so far I haven't created something worth mentioning.

@charles-davidcorbin3341 3 года назад

Nice video Ben, like usual. I practice your Punisher exercices since I watch it a month or 2 ago and its really help me playing faster I can Do it AT 190 bpm now! And now I Will have another exercices I want to try the hum gym suicide? ( Run a Line go back and run the next Line)

@mrk4510 3 года назад

There's a pretty good one on Sweating Bullets. 👊😉

@meyou9655 3 года назад

I love the sound of that one.

@Eskimogunslinger 3 года назад

@13:46 crying here dude this is how I feel when I'm analysing my playing too much. The puzzled look at the end made it 🤣

@dheerajyadav7637 3 года назад

Hay Uncle Ben,,,,,great lesson as always however I wish if u could a lesson on "Hybrid picking" and some exercises to master it ??🤘🤘

@guitarnerdjoey1192 3 года назад

Now do the punisher but flip the fingers. So for ascending it would be 1,2,3,4 on the low E, then 1,2,3 on the low E and then 4 on the A, and so on and so forth. It will really force you to slow down and actually think about what your hand is doing.

@joecool415 3 года назад

All these exercises are great, I notice a lot of guitarists suck playing index to open.

@k4mil66 3 года назад

Please make video about your guitar collection!

@pennabis 3 года назад

since I saw your (former) video the punisher has become my favourite exercise; the others are interesting as well. appreciate your vdeos. how about some warm up exercises without guitar (I mean arms and hands stretching)? You do any of those, and which are the most efficient in your opinion? Keep up the good work, ciao!

@travisguide4516 3 года назад

Way to break it down and keep it funny you kick ass uncle ben

@k4mil66 3 года назад

I think that's the most usefull channel I subscribe :O

@fireonhigh100 2 года назад

saw this band in orlando ,the lead guitar player had only 2 fingers on his left hand, they called him lobsterboy,, he was fucking badassss!! im not kidding!

@allboutthemojo 3 года назад

The exercises in the later half of the video have my brain spinning and reminds me of a time when I played drunk in front of some guests who asked me to play because they " heard " that I played guitar. At the time I could play 3 chords , after drinking I attempted 6. They never asked me to play again! 😄

@nordicguitar8395 3 года назад

Thanks Uncle Ben. I told my step-dad I’m coming to live with you because you rock. Mom doesn’t know because she started drinking again and she’s passed out.

@neverquit7190 3 года назад

You are insane, Ben. Those chains are sick!

@zaidanp7258 3 года назад

Finally!!!

@zebraoctobra94 3 года назад

You're the best

@drsmith4582 3 года назад

The Flipper is the only one I didn’t know. I used it for the first time this morning and I can already feel new dendrite connections forming in my brain 🧠 😂

@thijs199 3 года назад

I don't know whether my strumming habits (without pick) play a role but I had no issue with starting the upstrokes with the 3 notes a string pattern. Neither had issues with the finger 2 3 4 on the way down. I did practice it before but not like a lot

@matthew3496 3 года назад

I really like your intro animations. Jokes also funny. Well done.

@johnmaloney1681 3 года назад

Been kinda a picking exercise addict lately. I do about 15-min/day. Funny-ass vid muh-man. How about one on useful sequences? Thx for the new routines.

@davidandrews3237 2 года назад

Thanks to Uncle Ben, my guitar chops have significantly improved - but my grammar has taken a nose dive 🙂 Tomo while doing Yoga sucks too !!!! 🙂

@j1shot2 2 года назад

Where did you get that string retainer from? It looks awesome!

@hamzabencherif5278 3 года назад

you killed me with your imitation :-D a French follower... ;-)

@johnkbijo 3 года назад

Aight time to replace the punisher exercise with these! Would still need something for them complex chords :)

@JYelton 3 года назад

Really useful stuff presented in typical awesome Uncle Ben style. What’s up with hitting the bell and it says “disabled because kids?”

@baker8584 3 года назад

It'd be a good brain buster to take these shapes and step down a fret when you get to B & E. I'm gonna try these tomorrow after I osmosify these exercises by sleeping with my laptop on my face.

@thijs199 3 года назад

I still have issues with muting though, more like the position of my hand while playing at the bridge on the thinner strings

@d00mf00d 3 года назад

Sub SEA quently set it on fire. The tomo scale practice sounds like NES dungeon music.

@ricksanchezito8972 3 года назад

Sweet guitar strap!

@hectoriii8603 3 года назад

Shots fired 😂😂😂

@gruggiere 3 года назад

Uncle Ben Snake Sabo showed me a chromatic exercise about 40 years ago he called it, if I remember correctly his spider crawl starting on low E after the 4th note you advance to the next string and move up one fret till you make it to the high E then come back in reverse all with alternate picking of course, so yes this is why i suck at guitar, that's when i decided to let him be the Rock star, I'll be the truck driver 😂

@Untoldanimations 3 года назад

15:54 12123212 is the opening riff to One Day Closer To The End Of The World by cattle decap haha

@Alman88100 3 года назад

Uncle Ben has developed superb comedy chops as well through this channel.

@BenEller 3 года назад

And I write all my own material, except for the parts that I steal from funnier people!

@sd76-22 3 года назад

Ben.... can you cover some Enuff Z’Nuff??? I could never be without you and For Now???? Derek Frigo Classic 80’s hair band! Has a great tone lots of whammy bar chops and harmonics!!!!

@austinmidwest7062 3 года назад

great exercises . though i am in trouble after asking people if they would watch to makes sure i smoothly got all four on the d

@nsp477 3 года назад

Hey Uncle Ben, a bit off-topic but, do you have any slice of fried go... I mean, video on how to do trills effectively? I'm learning "Wherever I may roam" by Metallica and can't seem to do trills above stepdad speed.

@TheBeadleMachine 3 года назад

Dear Uncle Ben, regarding the classic and the pull-off variation on descending - do you put all fingers down on the string in advance and then pull off? Or is there only a pair of fingers in contact with the fretboard at any one time when doing pull offs? Hope I explained that correctly! Thanks

@LegionDe75 3 года назад

Wish i wouldve known the 5 minute thought process/practice idea back when i first started ...

@Robbie28 3 года назад

I know crazy well (I've been to enough shrinks to start my own 12 step program) and those 6 people who "thumbs down" this are in desperate need of couch time. Visit your local VA and tell them Rob sent ya :)